By A 2-1 Margin In New Poll Virginians Say Northam Should Resign
By Cameron Joseph
February 8, 2019 3:32 pm
A strong majority of Virginia voters want Gov. Ralph Northam (D) to resign in the wake of his blackface scandal, according to a new poll conducted for the liberal website Daily Kos.
The online survey finds that 60 percent of Virginians want Northam to quit, with just 24 percent of voters saying he should stay. That includes majorities of Democrats (58 say he should quit, 27 percent say he shouldn’t), Republicans (72 to 15 percent), independents (52 to 28 percent), people who voted for Northam in 2017 (56 to 28 percent), black voters (64 to 27 percent) and white voters (60 to 22 percent).
Northam has just a 34 percent approval rating in the survey, with 50 percent disapproving. That 16-point gap is similar to the 17-point unfavorable gap President Trump holds in the Democratic-leaning state.
Northam has refused to resign, and as other top Democrats have become ensnared in their own scandals this week it appears more likely now than it did days ago that he may indeed hang onto office.
Survey respondents were much more closely divided on whether the legislature should move to remove Northam from office: 41 percent said the legislature should, and 39 percent said it shouldn’t. That question appears to be moot, as there seems little appetite in either party in Richmond to go through that arduous process.
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